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A Sacramento County Superior Court judge heard more arguments Friday in a case over state legislators’ calendars but gave no indication of how he will rule, one attorney said. Attorneys from Los Angeles News Group and its sister news organization, the Bay Area News Group, and the state Senate gave arguments in front of Judge Michael Kenny.

In a groundbreaking victory for open-government advocates, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered the state Senate and its leaders to turn over the appointment calendars and other records of two former state senators.

SACRAMENTO >> State lawmakers marked the end of the legislative session early Saturday by approving two political reform bills aimed at addressing a string of scandals, including the arrest of two state senators on federal corruption charges.

The Los Angeles News Group and its sister news organization the Bay Area News Group sued the state Senate and its leaders Thursday over their refusal to release portions of the appointment calendars of two indicted and suspended state senators.

SANTA ANA >> The former owner of a Long Beach hospital pleaded not guilty Monday to charges related to his admitted role in what authorities have called the largest medical fraud case in state history.

SACRAMENTO — The California Senate voted Friday to suspend three lawmakers caught up in separate criminal cases after the latest one to be hauled into court refused to step down, the most serious house-cleaning action the chamber has taken in more than a century.

SACRAMENTO -- State Sen. Ron Calderon who is facing federal corruption charges alleging he took kickbacks while in office will take an indefinite leave of absence from the Legislature while he awaits trial, a Senate spokesman said Sunday evening.

While he was in the Assembly in 2012, Charles Calderon pushed for several bills that would have made it easier for mobile home park owners to collect more rent. At the same time his son Ian Calderon, who is now a Democratic Assemblyman representing the Whittier area, worked as a consultant for longtime family friends with relatives who operated mobile home parks.

State Sen. Ronald S. Calderon pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he accepted $100,000 in cash bribes in return for supporting legislation beneficial to a hospital executive and a Hollywood studio owner.

Before they became ensnared in a federal sting operation targeting Sacramento corruption, state Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, and his brother, former Assemblyman Tom Calderon, had been major fundraisers for allied Democratic politicians, according to a survey of campaign finance data.

State Sen. Ronald S. Calderon, D-Montebello, was taken into custody by federal authorities Monday, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said. Calderon is expected to appear in a federal courthouse Monday afternoon on charges he accepted $100,000 in cash bribes — as well as plane trips, expensive dinners and trips to golf resorts — in exchange for supporting legislation that benefited a Long Beach hospital owner and a Hollywood studio owner.

State Sen. Ron Calderon’s lucky streak ended in Las Vegas. For months, the Montebello Democrat quietly had taken bribes from a Hollywood studio owner, federal officials allege. Calderon also received free tickets to a Lady Gaga concert and scored a VIP table at a Nelly show, courtesy of the studio owner, court documents show.

For decades, he commanded a political dynasty that lorded over Sacramento, East Los Angeles and the red carpet winding through Tinseltown. But powerful state Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, fell in an onslaught of federal political corruption and health care fraud charges Friday in what may turn out to be the biggest legislative scandal in a quarter-century.

State Sen. Ron Calderon, under a cloud of suspicion over a 24-count grand jury indictment alleged widespread bribery, fraud and money laundering, should resign from office, the Senate’s leader Darrell Steinberg said in a statement released to the media: “I make this statement with the full support of my caucus.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed federal charges of political corruption against state Sen. Ron Calderon and his brother Tom Calderon Friday. A federal indictment (which you can see by clicking the link on the left) outlines the charges against Ron and Rom Calderon.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed federal charges of political corruption against state Sen. Ron Calderon and his brother Tom Calderon Friday. The above is a timeline of events leading up to those charges.

SACRAMENTO >> The Senate Rules Committee on Tuesday voted 4-0 to temporarily remove state Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, from all committees on which he sits, as a federal investigation into his conduct continues.

SACRAMENTO >> State Sen. Ron Calderon’s days in the Capitol may be numbered. Last week, a local Assemblywoman called on Calderon to resign after Al Jazeera America made public an affidavit showing the FBI is investigating him for soliciting bribes.

LOS ANGELES - Officials Thursday removed State Sen. Ron Calderon, D-Montebello, from the California Film Commission following a report by Al Jazeera America that Calderon solicited bribes from an undercover FBI agent posing as a film producer.